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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






2. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






3. What is normal BMI?






4. What is the function of vitamin E?






5. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






6. Sources of fats






7. What function is vitamin D?






8. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






9. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






10. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






11. When does BMR decrease?






12. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






13. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






14. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






15. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






16. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






17. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






18. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






19. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






20. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






21. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






22. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






23. When does BMR increase?






24. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






25. What foods have high quality protein?






26. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






27. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






28. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






29. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






30. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






31. What are healthy sources of fats?






32. What does DASH stand for?






33. The higher the BMR a client has --






34. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






35. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






36. What is RDA of protein?






37. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






38. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






39. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






40. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






41. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






42. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






43. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






44. What is the function of vitamin C?






45. What function is vitamin A?






46. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






47. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






48. What is normal albumin levels?






49. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






50. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?